Orchestra Personnel

Dennis Russell DaviesMusic Director

William McGlaughlinAssociate Conductor

VIOLINSRomuald Tecco, ConcertmasterHanley Daws" Thomas KornackertRobert Zelnick Carolyn DawsCelia Rosenberger John D. KennedyMichal Sobieski Eugene VuicichFrank Lee

VIOLASTamas Strasser#Salvatore Venittelli#Robert Levine

CELLOSPeter Howard +Edouard Blitz#DarylSkobba

BASSSusan Matthew Allard +

FLUTE & PICCOLOJulia Bogorad +

OBOESRichard Killmer +Thomas Tempel

CLARINETTimothy Paradise +

BASSOONSCharles Ullery +Rita Wells

HORNSPriscilla McAfee Rybka +Lawrence Barnhart#

HARPSICHORD & PIANOLayton James

• Associate ConcertmastertPrincipal se~ ~iOlin

+ PrincipalNCo-Principal

Dale Warland, Conductor and Music Direc-tor of The Dale Warland Singers, has drawnacclaim as a choral conductor. Currently.Dr. Warland is also conductor of theMacalester Concert Choir, which tours bothnationally and internationally, and theMacalester Festival Chorale. Dr. Warlandhas prepared his choirs for performanceswith various organizations led by such con-ductors as Antal Dorati, Stanislaw Skrowa-czewski, Robert Shaw, Dennis RussellDavies and others. Dr. Warland receiveddegrees from St. Olaf College, the Universityof Minnesota and the University of SouthernCalifornia. His academic honors include aTanglewood Scholarship and a Ford Founda-tion grant. Dr. Warland is also an activecomposer and arranger and has recentlyestablished his own choral series with Jen-sen Publications.

•••••SPCO Associate Conductor WilliamMcGlaughlin joined this Orchestra in 1975as the SPCO's Exxon! Arts Endowment Con-ductor. Since then, he has led the Orchestrain performance throughout the U.S. includ-ing a 1977 Inauguration Week performancein Washington, D.C. Prior to that, Mr.McGlaugWin was Assistant Conductor of thePittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra.He has guest conducted the MinnesotaOrchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, theDenver Symphony Orchestra and the NewJersey Symphony, and most recently guestconducted the Northwest Chamber Sympho-ny (Seattle) and the Richmond Symphony inVirginia. Mr. McGlaugWin was AssistantMusic Director of the White Mountains(New Hampshire) Art and Music Festival fortwo summers and he has conducted at thePlatteville (Wisconsin) Music Festival andthe Cabrillo (California) Music Festival aswell.

The Dale Warland Singers,organized in 1972, is rapidlyattaining acclaim both athome and abroad. Comprised

f 44 singers from the Twin.ities area, the choir has

developed its reputationthrough its musicality, versa-tility and programming. Itsrepertoire includes, for anextensive part, standarda capella music, however, theSingers have also made sig-nificant contributions withperformances of 20th centurymusic. The long list of com-posers includes a wide varie-ty of nationalities andmusical styles. The DaleWarland Singers haveappeared with the MinnesotaOrchestra, the SPCO, and theMinnesota Opera Company.Major works in its perfor-mance repertoire includeBach's Passion According toSt. Matthew, Mozart's Requi-em and Handel's Messiah.The Singers have concertizedthroughout the central por-tion of the U.S. and have beenbroadcast over public radio.In 1977, The Dale WarlandSingers toured Scandinavia

r'e request of the Swedish, Jconserter, and recordedfor both Swedish and Norwe-gian Radio. The ensemblerecently completed record-ings for Columbia Records(Dave Brubeck's La Fiesta de1aPosada) and Augsburg Pub-lishing House (Echoes ofChristmas - released Octo-ber 1979).

CelebrationI.A. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium

The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MinnesotaFriday & Saturday, December 21 & 22, 1979

8:00 p.m.

Lisbeth Lloyd, sopranoJanis Hardy, mezzo-sopranoDonald Holness, tenorJohn Stephens, bassThe Dale Warland SingersWilliam McGlaughlin and Dale Warland, conductors

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Exsultate Jubilate, K. 165AllegroRecitativo; AndanteVivace (Alleluja)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243MagnificatEt exsultavit spiritus meusQuia respexit humilitatemOmnes generationesQuia fecit mihi magnaEt misericordiaFecit potemtianDeposuit potentesEsurientes implevit bonisSuscepit IsraelSicut locutus estGloria Patri

Richard Killmer. Thomas Tempel, oboes d'amoreINTERMISSION

GIAN-CARLO MENOTTI

Suite from Amahl and the Night VisitorsThe Shepherd's Dance

CAROLS; The Dale Warland SingersHe is Born (FRENCH),arranged by RogerWagner (Richard

Killmer,oboe)Coventry Carol (ENGLISH),arranged by DaleWarlandWe'll Dress the House, Alfred BurtAll on Christmas Morning, Alfred BurtCatalonian Carol (CATALAN).arranged by Dale Warland

(Richard Killmer,0boe)Wassail Song (ENGLISH),arranged by Stephen Paulus

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Selections from MessiahSinfoniaAnd the Glory of the LordFor Unto Us a Child is BornHalleluja

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CAROLSWith Audience

Lisbeth Lloyd, soprano, comes to SI. Paul from the HiddenValley Opera in Carmel, CA, where she appeared as theGoverness in The Turn of the Screw, Monica in TheMedium, Micaela in Carmen, and Lauretta in Gianni Schic-chi. A regional finalist in last year's San Francisco OperaAuditions, she received her training at Wheaton College inMassachusetts and the Iuilliard School. This fall she madeher Twin Cities debut singing Barber's Knoxville: Summer

, of 1915 with the Minnesota Dance Theatre. She also singswith the Minnesota Opera Company. Very much at home

L- with recital and oratorio performance, her concert solo~ appearances have included the Requiems of Brahms, Moz-

art and Faure, Handel's Judas Maccabeus, and Mozart'sExsultate Jubilate.

Mezzo-soprano Janis Hardy has been featured with theMinnesota Opera Company for seven years and will appearin the Company's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's ThePirates of Penzance later this season. Aside from her localperformances, Ms. Hardy has appeared in concerts andoperas and on radio and television throughout the UnitedStates. Her appearances include 1977 performances at theCabrillo Music Festival in California and with the BostonOpera, and earlier this season, she appeared with theKansas City Lyric Opera. During the past several years,Ms. Hardy has soloed under many conductors, among themStanislaw Skrowaczewski, Dennis Russell Davies, PhilipBrunelle, Aaron Copland, Robert Wagner and HelmuthRilling.

Tenor Donald Hoiness began his serious musical study asan instrumentalist with piano and oboe, later going on tovoice. Holding music degrees from SI. Olaf and the Univer-sity of Colorado with additional study at Juilliard, he is arecipient of several awards including a fellowship grantused for study in France. He has specialized in the music ofthe Baroque period, particularly the Evangelist roles in thePassions of J.S. Bach. He has appeared in a Town Hallrecital in New York, in television recitals, with the Minne-sota Opera Company, and as a recitalist and lecturer oncollege and university campuses throughout the country.Mr. Hoiness is on the music faculty at St. Olaf College.

Bass-baritone John Stephens holds a Doctor of MusicalArts Degree from the University of Illinois, and was aFulbright Scholar in Hamburg. He has appeared with theLake George Opera Festival for six seasons; has spent fiveseasons with the Asolo Opera; has sung with the BaltimoreOpera, Sarah Caldwell's Opera New England, AugustaOpera, Piedmont Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Stu-dio; and has made concert appearances at the KennedyCenter, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and theNational Cathedral. This season, Mr. Stephens' appear-ances will include with Augusta and Piedmont Operas andthe Baltimore Opera among others, and a scheduleof concert appearances and work as an Affiliate Artist.

Program costs for these concerts underwritten by the 3MFoundation.

I

From theSaint Paul Chamber OrchestraMusicians, Staff and Friends:

A Joyous Holidayand

A Happy New Year!

HAPPY HOll DAYSHAP PYHC

JOIN US FOR A CAROL SING-ALONGI

I.o CmotE, ALL YE FAITHFUL OLD LATIN HYMN

o cons, ALL YE FAITIlFUL,JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT,o COME YE, 0 COME YE

TO BETHLEHEM.COME AND BEHOLD HIM,BORN TIlE KING OF ANGELS.

ADESTE FIDELES,LAETI TRIUMPHANTES,VENITE, VENITE IN

BETIILEHEMNATUM VIDETE,REGUM ANGELORUM.

o COME LET US ADORE HIM,o CO~lE LET US ADORE HIM,o COME LET US ADORE HIM,CHRIST TIlE LORD.

VENITE ADOREMUS,VENITE ADOREMUS,VENITE ADOREMUS,DOMINUM.

II.DECK TIlE HALLS OLD WELSH AIR

DECK TIlE HALLS WITH BOUGHS OF HOLLY,FA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA.'TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY,FA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA.DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL,FA LA LA, LA LA LA, LA LA LA.TROLL TIlE ANCIENT YULE TIDE CAROL,FA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA

SEE TIlE BLAZING YULE BEFORE US,(Orchestra)

STRIKE TIlE HARP AND JOIN THE CHORUS,(Orchestra)

FOLLOW ME IN MERRY MEASURE,(Orchestra)

WHILE I TELL OF YULETIDE TREASURE,FA LA LA LA LA, LA LA LA LA.

III.SILENT NIGHT JOSEPH MOHR - FRANZ GRUBER

SILENT NIQIT! HOLY NIGHT!ALL IS CALM, ALL IS BRIGHT.ROUND YON VIRGIN MOTHER AND CHILD,HOLY INFANT, SO TENDER AND MILD,SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACESLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE.

SILENT NIGHT! HOLY NIGHT!SHEPHERDS QUAKE AT THE SIGHT!GLORIES STREAM FROM HEAVEN AFAR,HEAVENLY HOSTS SING ALLELUIA,CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN!CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN!

IV.THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

ENGLISH FOLKSONG

ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMASMY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME

ON THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMASMY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME

ON TIlE THIRD DAY (ETC. TO TWELFTH)

A PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREEnx> TURTLE DOVESTHREE FRENCH HENSFOUR CALL ING BIRDSFIVE GOLDEN RINGSSIX GEESE A-LAYINGSEVEN SWANS A-SWIMMINGEIGHT MAIDS A-MILKINGNINE LADIES DANCINGTEN LORDS A-LEAPINGELEVEN PIPERS PIPINGTWEL VE DRUMMERS DRUMMING

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EXTRA MUSICIANS PER~ORMING IN TONIGHT'S CONCERTi fThe following musicinas will join the Saint Paul Chamber

Orchestra for the Holiday Specials: Cynthia Stokes, flute;ave Baldwin, trumpet I; Michael Brand, trumpet II; andJnald Hakala, trumpet III.

THE DALE WARLAND SINGERS

SopranoCindy K. AndersonRuth BrewsterNancy GrundahlSue Doran HerberSusan Kathmann

~ Elizabeth MillerMary L. OlsonMarie SathrumSue ShepardLinda SteenRuth TaylorAltoHalyna Mykolaievna BrynThea Sikora EngelsonJoanne HalvorsenVicki R. HultineLynn Carol JonesJanet Lechman

~hris Ludwigianne Prieditis

Marilyn SieberRica Jane VanRuth War land

TenorPaul J. AndersonGeorge BerglandCraig EdwallRob EngelsonTim JohnsonPaul W. LohmanAlan L. MadisonMichael E. MillerJerry D. NelsonA. Douglas NodlandJohn P. Slauson

BassDavid BriggsSteve BurgerCary John FranklinCharles HarderLloyd Hj elleWaynne B. HornickeJerry RubinoFrank SteenPaul U. TeieClyde ThompsonJohn M. Woodward

Joining The Dale Warland Singers for the performance ofthe Magnificat will be: Sue Boxrud Donaldson, MelanieDeyoung, Katie Haggans, Cynthia Lohman, Julie Ann Nelson,'arbara Richardson, Jill E. Schmall and Ruth E. Stuck.

The SPCO is funded in part by the United Arts Fund, and isalso the recipient of a general operating support grantfunded jointly by the Minnesota State Arts Board from fundsappropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by theNational Endowment for the Arts.